मुएया-कुम्बा Road

Muea-Kumba Road
The road was to be the second part of Mutengene-Kumba road that is sponsored by 80 percent from funds from the European Union and about 20 percent from the Cameroonian government. The first part of the road from Mutengene to Muea was completed back in 2007 and the second part was to begin immediately thereafter. But something happened and the construction of the Muea-Kumba part of the road got delayed. No reason was given for the delay despite the fact that the then Prime and some other high ranking officials in the South West Province had come to Muea where the first part of the construction ended and lunched the go ahead for the second part of the project. The company that is responsible for carrying out the road construction is called Soger Satom and they had all the materials that they needed to complete the work in their chantier in a place called Ekona.

I had been at the chantier while I was leaving in Molyko and the chantier is pretty impressive. Heavy equipment and gravel was in place. The construction company gets the gravel that they used for the road construction in a part of the Mount Cameroon. Anyway I believe the funding for the second part of the project came in and work resumed and the construction of the road is now up to the beginning of a part of the town called Buea road in Kumba. If you are similar with Kumba, the road has reached the part of Buea road just after the Cameroon college of Art and Science.

There is a big contrast now between getting into the town and trying to move around the town. The first part is now pretty easy. It took me back in 2006 when I first visited Kumba about 4 hours from the mile 17 park to Kumba town. Now from Mutengene to Kumba town can be done in just under 1 and a half hour of driving. Good time for a journey that used to be strenuous. The construction company did a decent job also. There is a bridge that used to lead you into Muyuka town that was in a pretty bad state and they fixed it. There is also a place called Ediki that had a terrible hill and the hill is now something in the past. The hill in Ediki claimed a few lives including that of one of my elder brothers who was a driver. That happened way back in the 1970s.